“I can’t imagine that they were going to put a tourist in a spacesuit and set him some important task. They will just let them out, give them the opportunity to hang out there for a while, and then return them to the station, ”Hoffman, currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told RIA Novosti.
According to him, going out into outer space does not require the amount of training that is needed to work on the outer surface of the station.
“Most of the time in training astronauts is required in order to learn how to do useful work. In the case of tourists, I suppose that they won’t ask them to go outside and change the batteries of the ISS, so they won’t need as much time as real astronauts, ”he said.
On June 25, it became known that the Energy Corporation and the US company Space Adventures Inc. signed a contract for a short-term expedition of two people aboard the Soyuz MS to the ISS Russian segment.
One of the participants in the flight will make a spacewalk.